Current PhD Students in the Centre for Public Health:

Dr Tom Davies: Using novel synthesis methods to identify and optimise components for public mental health interventions - NIHR SPHR PhD 

Cat Holt: Exploring and responding to food insecurity in preschool children in Somerset: systematic review, quantitative or qualitative studies and intervention pilot

Claire Kelly: Understanding why parents may choose to withdraw their child from relationship and sex education: a mixed-methods study to explore individual and contextual factors related to withdrawal
(This PhD is jointly funded by the NIHR SPHR and NIHR ARC West)

Andew Mahon: The mental health of young adults attending colleges of further education: Identifying strategies for improvement and support via physical activity 

Previous PhD Students in the Centre for Public Health:

Dr Sarah Bell: Physical activity and emotional wellbeing in young people

Dr Heide Busse: Youth mentoring: factors influencing effectiveness of youth mentoring programmes and assessment of outcomes

Dr Charlotte Chamberlain: The impact of the NHS reorganisation on access to high cost cancer pharmaceuticals

Dr Yanaina Chavez-Ugalde: Approaching evaluations of public health interventions to tackle obesity from a complex systems perspective

Dr Jo Crichton: Peer-led approach to chlamydia screening

Dr Michael Daly: Improving Preconception Health: Intervention development to target multiple modifiable risk factors for multiple adverse perinatal outcomes

Dr Kaiseree Dias: Designing an intervention to increase physical activity using epidemiology, systematic review and qualitative methods

Dr Harriet Fisher: Factors Influencing the Uptake of the HPV Vaccination Programme

Dr Suzi Gage: Examining the relationship between cannabis use, psychosis and depression in ALSPAC

Dr Sarah Harding: Environmental associations with physical activity in children and adolescence

Paige Hulls: Cluster randomised trial workplace intervention to improve cardiovascular health of professionals in male-dominated industries: Design and pilot in the construction industry

Dr Abi Lyndon: Opioid addiction: risks from concurrent poly-substance abuse

Dr Kyle Macdonald Wallis: The influence of social networks on physical activity in 10-11 year old children

Dr Gemma Morgan: Developing and evaluating a physical activity intervention to prevent disability in older people: a feasibility study and pilot RCT

Dr Alex Nicholson: Hand hygiene in primary schools; evaluating the effects of an educational intervention

Dr Alice Porter: What exactly are 'me' sized meals for 1 to 5 year olds? Developing age-and-sex specific meal size guidance for preschoolers

Dr Michelle Taylor: Role of genes involved in synaptic plasticity in schizophrenia

Dr Laura Tinner: Multiple risk behaviour and health inequalities in young adulthood

Dr David Troy: Determining the efficiacy of choice architecture interventions that can reduce population alcohol consumption

Dr Lizzy Winstone: Social media use and adolescent mental health and well-being